The Chili Pepper's 500-Year Journey to Asia

CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 1:08 The Pre-Chili World 3:36 Columbus's Mistake 6:03 Displacing Old Spices 8:40 Why Mammals Can't Stand It 11:43 The Global Takeover 14:04 The Economics of Heat 16:49 The Future of Chili PICTURE CREDITS "Shan Hills, Myanmar, Red chili pepper plant" by Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons "Zerumbet Ginger (Zingiber zerumbet (L.) Sm.); flowering stem Wellcome V0042951" by unknown author, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons "Apothecary Garden 33" by MBH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons "Pepper plant (Piper nigrum L.); fruiting stem. Line engravin Wellcome V0043072" by unknown author, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons "Black Pepper on Jackfruit Tree - Kerala - IMG 3623" by Varghese K James, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons "Timbur" by Laluttam, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons "India - Markets - chilies (5208314451)" by McKay Savage from London, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons "Green Curry, Siam House, Paris 002" by Guilhem Vellut from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons "XBio illustration – Ion Channels" by explorebiology, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons "Gutenberg's printing press in the Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany (48988292696)" by dronepicr, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons "PricklyAsh" by Netpilots, CC BY 3.0 ch, via Wikimedia Commons "Aztec codex replica" by Rosemania, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons "Karnataka & Andhra Pradesh border" by vijay chennupati, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons "Thysanoptera sp. (25855774487)" by Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons "16th Century map of Asia Wellcome L0044808" by unknown author, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Footage and pictures: Pixabay, Wikimedia